the article is devoted to the study of the modern system of principles of procedural law, through the prism of doctrinal approaches. The paper analyzes not only theoretical concepts and terms, but also analyzes the materials of judicial practice, examines legal positions to the sectoral principles of the constitutional Court of the Russian Federation and the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation. Justifies point of view about the necessity of clarifying the procedural law in terms of implementation of selected principles of law in the code of civil procedure of the Russian Federation, the APC and the APC.

Expertise of normative legal acts and their drafts plays an important role in the mechanism of ensuring of effective implementation of law-making decisions and creating high-quality, noncontradictory legislation. This is due to the high requirements for the legal regulation of the institute of expertise in law-making. The subject of this article is the federal legal regulation of the expertise of normative legal acts and their drafts. The research is aimed at identifying its inherent problems and formulating solutions to them. The paper uses systematic, formal-logical, formal-legal methods to determine trends in the modern development of the institute of expertise in law-making, describes the current state of its legal regulation, identifies and analyzes its advantages and disadvantages, evaluates particular law-making initiatives to reduce the number of professional examinations of normative legal acts and their projects, compares professional and non-professional (public discussion of draft normative legal acts) expertise in law-making. Conclusions are made about the expediency of passing normative legal acts and their projects through an expanded number of examinations, about the importance of a comprehensive assessment of a law-making decision, including with the help of the new digital technologies.

In the article the author makes an attempt to analyze the effectiveness of legal norms in regulating the protection of victims of armed conflicts. Various views of scientists on the problem of the effectiveness of norms in regulating the issues under consideration are considered. The reasons of ineffectiveness of regulation of protection of victims of armed conflicts are investigated. The author explores ways to overcome problems in this area, based on the opinion of scientists, and the modern experience of regulation in this area. The article examines the issues of the impact of armed conflicts on international treaties, violations of human rights and the consequences of these violations in society.

Activities carried out in merchant shipping that are international in nature have a strict division of functions between all participants, since they require constant maintenance of its dynamics and compliance with the deadlines for the execution of numerous transport and related contracts. This need for division of labor has led to the emergence of a specific intermediary — a Maritime agent who takes over the execution of numerous formalities, performing various types of actions, thereby greatly facilitating the service of a foreign ship in the port. The purpose of the article is to assess the effectiveness of legal regulation of the contract of Maritime Agency in modern commercial navigation. The features of the legal nature of Maritime Agency agreements are revealed. The author analyzes the existing approaches to the formation of sources of legal regulation in this area, both through the unification and creation of national norms. The conclusion is made about the advantage of applying the established customary rules of the law of the sea, which remain for a long time one of the most effective regulators of Agency relations.

The article discusses the prospects for the development of international labor law in the context of the study of international law crises. Among the crisis phenomena, the author notes: the lag of previously developed norms from the actual modern international and domestic life, non-compliance or improper implementation of existing international legal norms, and the lack of development of the conceptual apparatus. According to the author, a large array of international labor law norms needs to be revised due to rapidly changing conditions of socio-economic life. The article also touches on the topical issue of regulating remote labor in the context of a pandemic.

The article analyzes the impact of modern digital technologies on law enforcement and its subject. The directions of digitalization influence on the person with law enforcement powers are shown. Possible forms and directions of expanding the range of subjects of law enforcement through robots and artificial intelligence are revealed. It is concluded that in the near future, artificial intelligence cannot fully replace a human judge.

In this article the author by means of the general review, comparative and analytical survey of different national sources of penal law of various countries and legal systems (including the systems of international law and justice) consistently discloses their spiritual and legal essence, their substantial and formal variety, as well as their development in a historical retrospective and prospect.

Labor relations are of no small importance for the development of any country, particularly economic ones, especially when interaction occurs between different countries due to extensive migration processes. In this regard, the issues of legal regulation of labor relations complicated by a foreign element are undoubtedly significant and relevant. The purpose of the article is to identify problems of the effectiveness of Russian legislation in regulating labor relations, with a foreign element present in their composition. Features of conflict-of-laws regulation of this type of legal relations are revealed. The author analyzes the existing approaches to the formation of conflict of laws principles.

The article analyzes some theoretical and practical problems of providing the population with social benefits and compensation payments (social compensations) from the standpoint of the protective function of social security. The authors present conclusions on the most relevant areas of improving Russian legislation.

The Constitutional Reform 2020 has identified a number of areas for future fundamental transformations of social security legislation, which requires a detailed study of sectoral norms in terms of forming their conceptual component. In this article author attention is focused on the problem of evaluative concepts and their meaningful disclosure in industry norms and norms of the Constitution of the Russian Federation.

This article outlines the existing approaches to determining the remuneration of workers in the budgetary and non-budgetary spheres of the economy. The main emphasis is placed on the analysis of reforms aimed at improving the remuneration of employees of state and municipal institutions as the least adapted to modern conditions of technological progress for economic entities. Despite numerous attempts, the problem of raising the wages of such workers has not yet been resolved. Meanwhile, identifying errors, it is possible to outline the ways to eliminate them and determine the directions for the further development of legal regulation of relations on remuneration of workers.

The article reveals the Genesis of labor law in the Russian Empire based on the analysis of the first legislative norms on labor protection of factory workers. Specific legal acts that established a ban on using the labor of minors and women in night and dangerous work are shown. The conclusion is made about the significance of this experience for establishing the labor regime and its protection in the modern digital economy.

The article analyzes some of the problems of legal regulation of landscaping the territories of municipalities. The possibilities of improving the legal mechanism for regulating landscaping of territories, as an element of the improvement and protection of green spaces in these territories as part of the green fund of urban and rural settlements, are considered.

the results of the round table on the topic “Organic Production: Environmental and Legal Basics” (Moscow State University, April 2020).
The author of this article considers the issue of the possibility of legislative consolidation of public private partnership (hereinafter — PPP) in the field of agricultural production, analyzes trends in the development of legislation on PPP in this area and in the Russian Federation in general.

the results of the round table on the topic “Organic Production: Environmental and Legal Basics” (Moscow State University, April 2020).
The article presents a comparative analysis of the old and new food Doctrine. The attention is focused on the important role of organic agriculture in the food security of Russia. An important aspect of ensuring food security is the competitiveness of agricultural products at the world level.

the results of the round table on the topic “Organic Production: Environmental and Legal Basics” (Moscow State University, April 2020).
The article presents an analysis of the current regulatory legal acts in the field of production and circulation of organic products. As a result, it found that acting on today is not enough documents. The ways of solving and developing in the short term the necessary documents for improving the regulatory framework in the field of production and certification are proposed.

the results of the round table on the topic “Organic Production: Environmental and Legal Basics” (Moscow State University, April 2020). The production of organic products is still developing at a slow pace. The main reason was — on the one hand, the establishment of high standards for its production, on the other hand, the impossibility of obtaining relatively inexpensive products without the use of agrochemicals and fertilizers. It is proposed to introduce one more gradation for agricultural products — products with improved environmental characteristics.

the results of the round table on the topic “Organic Production: Environmental and Legal Basics” (Moscow State University, April 2020).
The article deals with the issue of reflection in the legislation of special requirements for environmental protection in the production of organic products. As a result of the analysis of the Federal Law of August 3, 2018 No. 280-FZ “On organic products and on amendments to certain legislative acts of the Russian Federation” and national standards, it was concluded that the availability of these norms is minimal, and the existing ones are often not supported objective criteria to assess their implementation.

the results of the round table on the topic “Organic Production: Environmental and Legal Basics” (Moscow State University, April 2020).
The legal regulation of the production of organic agricultural products, requirements for raw materials, food presupposes the availability and understanding of the requirements. An explanation of the rules is also necessary for the compilers of the state register of organic producers. The solution to these problems is determined by clarity, clarity, interpretation of phrases, delimitation of branches of law, the role of legislative technology.

the results of the round table on the topic “Organic Production: Environmental and Legal Basics” (Moscow State University, April 2020).
The article discusses one of the directions of sustainable development of agriculture, shows measures of state support for producers of organic products for the transition and subsequent periods, studies the legislation of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation in terms of strategic planning for the development of organic agriculture.

the results of the round table on the topic “Organic Production: Environmental and Legal Basics” (Moscow State University, April 2020).
This article identifies possible directions of production, processing and marketing of organic products carried out by small forms of agricultural activity.

the results of the round table on the topic “Organic Production: Environmental and Legal Basics” (Moscow State University, April 2020).
The article discusses the legal framework for organic production of agricultural products in the Russian Federation as one of the key areas for ensuring food security.

the results of the round table on the topic “Organic Production: Environmental and Legal Basics” (Moscow State University, April 2020).
The list of basic concepts used in this Federal law has been expanded and the existing ones have been clarified. The list of principles of legal regulation of relations in the field of organic production, as well as a special article on the regulation of state organic supervision, is proposed. The main rights and obligations of officials who carry out this supervision, as well as the responsibilities of organic producers, are given.
Proposed additions to article 4 of this law, named As «requirements for the production of organic products». The list of mandatory information that can be entered in the unified state register of organic producers has been significantly expanded.

the results of the round table on the topic “Organic Production: Environmental and Legal Basics” (Moscow State University, April 2020).
The article provides a comparative legal analysis of the provisions of the Federal Law «On organic products and on amendments to certain legislative acts of the Russian Federation» and a number of laws of the CIS countries in the field of organic production or ecological agriculture. Based on the study, it is concluded that the analyzed ones are built on the basis of a general legal model, but there are some differences in legal regulation. Based on the analysis of foreign legislation, directions for improving Russian legislation are formulated.

the results of the round table on the topic “Organic Production: Environmental and Legal Basics” (Moscow State University, April 2020).
Organic farming while being environmentally beneficial as compared to conventional farming remains a source of such problems as water pollution by non-point effluents containing organic fertilizers, uncontrolled growth of methane emissions from vaster plough lands, threat to adjoining forests. Negative impacts on the environment from non-point sources are not regulated by the environmental legislation that leaves the organic farming beyond any environmental controls. Further development of organic farming may face lack of sufficient areas of high-quality plough lands that requires to strengthen conservation of available lands in the legislation.

the results of the round table on the topic “Organic Production: Environmental and Legal Basics” (Moscow State University, April 2020).
The article addresses the issues of legal provision of completeness and reliability of information about genetically modified organisms intended for release into the environment. The author investigated contradictions in the legal regulation of genetic engineering activities, gaps in the legislation on the production of organic products, investigated court practice. The author concludes that legislation needs to be improved to ensure that information on the content or absence of genetically modified organisms in agriculture is reliable. The law requires the state registration of genetically modified organisms, but administrative responsibility is established for the commission of acts in the form of the use of GMOs that have not been registered. The article substantiates proposals aimed at eliminating the identified contradictions.

the results of the round table on the topic “Organic Production: Environmental and Legal Basics” (Moscow State University, April 2020).
The article discusses the issue of legal regulation of the development of organic agriculture in the framework of the problem of legal regulation of climate protection. The article provides data on greenhouse gas emissions in the agricultural sector of the Russian Federation and Germany, examples of legal regulation measures in the field of climate change prevention in these countries, as well as measures taken in Germany to develop organic agriculture.

the results of the round table on the topic “Organic Production: Environmental and Legal Basics” (Moscow State University, April 2020).
A special legal regime for the use of natural resources and environmental protection has been established on the Baikal natural territory (hereinafter — BNT), there are significant restrictions on the development of agriculture, which hinders the development of the Baikal macro region. One of the solutions in this situation may be the development of organic agriculture on the BNT.